A vindication of the rights of woman. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited with an introduction and notes by Miriam Brody.
• Other Names: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
• Contents: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- 1. The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered -- 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed -- 3. The Same Subject Continued -- 4. Observations on the State of Degradation to which Woman is Reduced by Various Causes -- 5. Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt -- 6. The Effect which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character -- 7. Modesty -- Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue -- 8. Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation -- 9. Of the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society -- 10. Parental Affection -- 11. Duty to Parents -- 12. On National Education -- 13. Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates, with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement that a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce.
• Edition: Revised edition
• Publisher Details: London New York : Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (lxxx, 269 pages)
• Subjects: 305.42; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights; Women -- Social and moral questions; Women's rights; Civil Rights & Citizenship; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women -- Social and moral questions -- Early works to 1800; Women's rights -- Early works to 1800; Gleichberechtigung; Electronic books; Early works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141904634; 0141904631; 9781101488188; 1101488182
• Related ISBNs: 0141441259; 9780141441252; 0141018917; 9780141018911
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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